Cyberpunk: Edgerunner’s trailer is a beautiful assault on the senses

Netflix released a second trailer for on Monday Cyberpunk: Edgerunnerthe upcoming sci-fi action anime from Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill, Promare) based on CD Projekt Red’s 2020 open-world role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 and takes place in the world of Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop role-playing game cyberpunk.

The series follows David, a street kid trying to make a living in the body modification obsessed city of Night City. After crossing paths with Lucy, an elusive hacker, David chooses a life as an “edgerunner” – an outlaw mercenary willing to go head-to-head with the city’s most notorious cyber psychos and criminals on his quest to become a so-called legend.

Edited by Studio Trigger himself, this new trailer offers viewers a dizzying amount of visual stimulus, packed in just under three minutes with shots of multiple supporting characters, multiple shootouts, the series’ apparent “corpo” antagonist, as well as some eye-catching from Scenes from David that appear to use the Kerenzikov Effect— a cyberware capability of Cyberpunk 2077 This allows players to shoot and dodge enemy attacks as if slowing down time.

Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) is co-directing the series with Creative Director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), with character designs by Yoh Yoshinari (Little witch academy, BNA: Brand new animal) and an original score composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

Cyberpunk: Edgerunner will premiere on Netflix in September.